Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] know [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ?
2 You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs .
3 ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’
4 Not that I knew anything about the area of course .
5 ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’
6 Moving her just a fraction away , his eyes once more holding hers captive , he added , ‘ So is n't it fortunate that I know you for the cheat you are ? ’
7 Mrs. Steed , too , insisted that she knew nothing of the sale .
8 She denied that she knew anything about the power of attorney .
9 All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily .
10 ‘ We have reason to believe that you recently broke into Taigh na Tuir , the house belonging to Mr Hamilton here , and that you know something of the whereabouts of two valuable guns . ’
11 Although we know them in the UK as mushroom corals , the common name of this species is something of a misnomer .
12 getting compurgators to swear that they believed him to be oathworthy , although they knew nothing of the facts of the case .
13 Starkey said yesterday that he knew nothing of the move and as far as he was concerned he was still on Cacoethes .
14 His embarrassment about self-disclosure gives the impression , belied by his other books , that he knew nothing of the mystery that grace works by means of human weakness , not by side-stepping it .
15 He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank .
16 Major insisted that he knew nothing of the BCCI fraud before June 28 , 1991 , when he was informed by the Bank of England .
17 Hitler saw Czechoslovakia as the key to breaking Germany 's encirclement while Neville Chamberlain excused his appeasement of Hitler with the excuse that he knew nothing about the Czechs .
18 If they were stopped by the police and her basket was searched , he was to say that he knew nothing about the newspapers — she made him agree to this arrangement if he wanted to accompany her on her clandestine journeys .
19 It was clear from Hans 's face that he knew nothing about the allegations .
20 But I 've got a photograph of him , and I know he after the war was over he went back and married a nurse .
21 I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves
22 I had been there and I knew it as a beautiful seaside resort , but that was n't why I was so delighted .
23 It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power .
24 ‘ But I do deny it and you know nothing of the sort ! ’
25 And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’
26 He showed it to Patrizia Valesio and asked if she knew anything about the asterisks which Chiodini had pointed out .
27 I asked Dang if she knew anything on the subject of knitting machines .
28 When the passengers are cleaned up see if you can get this young lady , Irene Charial , alone and find out if she knows anything about the layout of the engine-room .
29 If you know something about the deeper inner workings of computers then you can make use of this fact to guess what sort of things might cause a program some difficulties .
30 If you know anything about the history of art , you 'll know that the real process of evaluation goes on after things have stopped .
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